Online Class: Coaching Techniques

Name: Coaching Techniques
Price: 95.00 USD

Focused on establishing robust coaching fundamentals, this course guides students through fifteen key topics, fostering skills to enhance client interactions and personal coaching methodology. With practical exercises tied to each lesson, participants can seamlessly transition theoretical knowledge into actionable coaching strategies.

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15

Lessons
23

Exams &
Assignments
575

Students
have taken this course
6

Hours
average time
0.6

CEUs

Course Description

Welcome to Essential Coaching Techniques, a course focused broadly on the field and practice of coaching. This course has two purposes:

To introduce you to the fundamentals of coaching, regardless of discipline or focus
To provide you with exercises that will prepare you to begin your coaching practice, and provide you with real tools for working with clients

This course lays a comprehensive foundation for coaching, introducing topics, techniques, and approaches that coaches implement across disciplines in their work to help their client base succeed. Students who enroll in this course will work through fifteen comprehensive topics. The lessons will define the specific topic, explain its significance for coaches and their coachees, and provide exercises that correlate with these topics. This structure will allow you to build a toolbox of techniques and may help you define your coaching methodology. The course is broken into the following fifteen lessons:

What is coaching?
Building Your Confidence
Boosting Your Creativity
Techniques for Working with Your Client
Introduction to Modeling
Giving Productive Feedback
The Meta Mirror
Managing Relationships
Introduction to Problem Solving
A Closer Look at Getting Stuck
Managing Difficult Situations
Planning for the Future
A Closer Look at the GROW Model
Group Coaching
Increasing Self Awareness

The course is appropriate for any individual who may be interested in developing a coaching methodology as well as anyone who is looking to implement these techniques in their personal or professional life.

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Completely Online
Self-Paced
6 Months to Complete
24/7 Availability
Start Anytime
PC & Mac Compatible
Android & iOS Friendly
Accredited CEUs

Universal Class is an IACET Accredited Provider

Course Lessons

Average Lesson Rating:

"Extraordinarily Helpful"

(135 votes)

Lesson 1. Exploring the Essence of Coaching: Definitions and Values
Coaching methodologies foster environments where both individual and organizational goals are met through strategic action plans and personalized guidance. As the field grows, its capacity to address disciplinary-specific outcomes like employee engagement and leadership development becomes more prominent.
Lesson 2. Confidence Unlocked: A Guide to Building Self-Assurance in Coaching
Confidence in coaching isn't just about knowledge, but also about embracing self-reflection, challenging personal limits, and mastering non-verbal cues. These foundational exercises empower coaches to foster trust and adaptability, which can be transformational for both themselves and their clients.
Lesson 3. Creative Confidence in Coaching
This lesson delves into creativity's importance in coaching, introducing poetry and mind mapping as exercises to inspire innovative problem-solving. These tools promote personal growth and organizational success by enabling coaches to encourage creativity in their coachees.
Lesson 4. Frameworks for Effective Client Meetings
To build impactful coaching sessions, the lesson focuses on the preparatory steps, in-session activities like mindfulness exercises, and detailed follow-ups to ensure continuity and accountability. By fostering an environment of self-reflection and critical thinking, coaches help coachees navigate their challenges and achieve their goals.
Lesson 5. Modeling Skills for Effective Coaching Practice
The lesson emphasizes modeling, a method where learning occurs through imitation, useful in coaching to foster skill acquisition. It presents exercises to help coachees systematize behaviors of admired individuals, thereby integrating them into their repertoire for enhanced performance.
Lesson 6. The Power of Meaningful and Constructive Feedback in Coaching
Observational learning through modeling requires focus and motivation, while productive feedback is pivotal for growth when coaches maintain a constructive and supportive approach. Creating defined feedback structures facilitates client progress within a confidential and supportive framework, fostering accountability and improvement.
Lesson 7. Beyond Feedback: The Meta Mirror Unveiled
In this lesson, coaches learn to structure feedback productively and understand the dynamics of their confidential relationship with clients. Using the meta mirror, originally developed by Robert Dilts, clients gain new perspectives by mentally stepping outside situations to adopt different perceptual positions.
Lesson 8. Relationship Management: The Meta Mirror Approach
This lesson presents exercises that enhance persuasion and communication skills by recognizing different perspectives and styles. By empathizing with others and understanding communication styles, clients can effectively manage diverse interpersonal interactions.
Lesson 9. Cultivating Relationship Management Skills Through Problem Solving
Focusing on outcome frames instead of problem frames fosters a positive mindset, enabling individuals to progress toward goals effectively. Coaching equips clients with tools to break down barriers and harness available resources, fostering growth and problem-solving resilience.
Lesson 10. Overcoming the Rut: Strategies for Moving Forward
The phenomenon of being stuck is explored, showing how it can dampen motivation and lead to client disengagement. Coaches learn to address this by creating awareness and leveraging motivational techniques, such as goal realignment and creative exercises, to revitalize forward momentum.
Lesson 11. Confronting and Resolving Tensions
In this lesson, we learn techniques to revive motivation in individuals who are stuck, focusing on internal and external barriers that hinder progress. It also examines common workplace conflicts and introduces practical exercises for enhancing confidence and handling underperformance.
Lesson 12. Goal-Setting Essentials
The lesson introduces two distinct exercises: one focusing on structured career future planning through visual mapping, and the other utilizing creative role-playing for envisioning an ideal personal and professional life.
Lesson 13. Mastering Goals: An Intro to the GROW Coaching Model
The GROW Model simplifies goal-setting by focusing on Goals, Reality, Obstacles, and Will, offering a structured yet flexible framework for coaching. Coaches use the model to facilitate decision-making and problem-solving, enhancing client self-awareness and commitment.
Lesson 14. Group Coaching Essentials
The GROW method is a coaching framework providing a structured approach to goal setting and problem-solving, consisting of Goals, Reality, Obstacles/Options, and Will/Way Forward. Group coaching is an alternative to individual coaching, leveraging shared goals and accountability among coachees to foster a broad reaching and community-driven growth environment.
Lesson 15. Reflect, Recognize, and Refine: A Journey to Self-Awareness
This lesson emphasizes using shared expectations and peer accountability in group coaching to facilitate coachee growth. Focusing on self-awareness, coachees develop better self-perception and stronger interpersonal skills, increasing their effectiveness both personally and professionally.

Learning Outcomes

By successfully completing this course, students will be able to:

Define coaching as a discipline and describe its value in boosting confidence, improving employee engagement, and increasing retention.
Identify and explain the major types of coaching, including executive, management, and life coaching, and the impact they have on personal and professional development.
Demonstrate the ability to apply self-reflection practices to articulate personal goals and enhance self-confidence.
Identify strategies for stepping beyond comfort zones and adopting confident body language to improve coaching effectiveness.
Demonstrate the ability to conduct creative exercises to enhance coaching strategies and inspire creativity in coachees.
Utilize mind mapping techniques to explore and solve complex issues effectively, demonstrating improvement in critical and creative thinking skills.
Apply centering exercises and the Socratic Method during coaching sessions to enhance client focus, mindfulness, and critical thinking, fostering transformative learning experiences.
Define and implement pre-session check-ins to effectively prepare coachees for productive sessions by assessing their current project status and emotional readiness.
Define modeling as a learning technique by observing and imitating behaviors or skills within a coaching context.
Demonstrate the ability to develop successful client behaviors through structured modeling exercises by identifying, mapping, and detailing actionable steps.#
Define productive feedback and its impact on coachee motivation and behavior change by describing its supportive nature and focus on problem-solving.
Demonstrate the application of a structured feedback exercise by engaging stakeholders to establish confidentiality and a consistent feedback loop for coaching improvement.
Define the five perceptual positions of the meta mirror and explain their individual purposes to gain new insights into situations.
Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.

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Course Title: Coaching Techniques

Course Number: 9770661

Lessons Rating: 4.5 / 5 Stars (135 votes)

Languages: English - United States, Canada and other English speaking countries

Category:

UniversalClass.com > Business > Life Coaching Courses

Availability: With online access available nationwide, this course reaches all U.S. states, including California, Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Georgia. Additionally, it’s open to learners in English-speaking countries such as the UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

Last Updated: May 2024

CEU Value: 0.6 IACET CEUs (Continuing Education Units)

CE Accreditation: Universal Class, Inc. has been accredited as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).

Grading Policy: Earn a final grade of 70% or higher to receive an online/downloadable CEU Certification documenting CEUs earned.

Course Type: Self-Paced, Online Classes

Assessment Method: Lesson assignments and review exams

Instructor: John Chouinard

Syllabus: View Syllabus

Course Fee: $120.00 U.S. dollars